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Subject: HATS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HAT TRIMMED BY A MADWOMAN, by RUTH MASON RICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw she'd trimmed the straw hat with avid care
Last Line: Not knowing she had sewed her madness there.
Subject(s): Hats; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


ALICIA'S BONNET, by ELIZABETH JONES PULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night alicia wore a tuscan bonnet
Last Line: And many humming-birds were fastened on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cavazza, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Hats


BESSIE'S BONNET, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bessie hath a dimpled chin
Last Line: Of her dainty bonnet.
Subject(s): Hats


BONNET SONNET, by JACQUELINE EMBRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What lady knows a hat as well as I?
Last Line: A tam o'shanter with a wicked feather.
Subject(s): Hats


COCK UP YOUR BEAVER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first my brave johnnie lad came to this town
Last Line: Hey, brave johnnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Subject(s): Hats


COURTESY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pretty little boy a pretty little girl
Last Line: You should carry it, and walk along with me
Subject(s): Hats


DRAB BONNETS, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They may cant of costumes, and of brilliant head-dresses
Last Line: And the bonnet of drab is still beauteous to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Hats; Quakers


HALOS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four tiny folk
Last Line: And less lonely.
Variant Title(s): Less Lonely
Subject(s): Books; Dwarfs; Hats; Reading


HAT, by CARL DENNIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My trademark tweed hat with a feather
Last Line: If I don't list you among my sources?
Subject(s): Hats


HAT ON A PEG, by D. RODMAN WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When his eyes stopped
Last Line: Yesterday still lingers %on that peg on the wall
Subject(s): Hats


HATS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round or square
Subject(s): Hats


HATS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the sake of the fleabane growing rose a little
Subject(s): Roses; Hats


HER BONNET, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When meeting-bells began to toll
Last Line: Only that her pretty bonnet kept away the aureole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E.
Subject(s): Hats; Public Worship; Vanity; Church Attendance


HER LEGHORN HAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her leghorn hat has rows on rows
Last Line: Her leghorn hat
Subject(s): Hats


JOSEPHINE'S HAT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What a gay array of hats!
Last Line: Such a flower!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hats; Women


MAN WITH HAT, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The small man with the bowler hat
Last Line: Them blessed by a single small man now grinning & waving his hat
Subject(s): Hats


MOTHER'S BONNET, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is her bonnet, with ribbons arrayed
Last Line: But it must have had wonderful power to draw.
Subject(s): Hats; Mothers


MOVING DAY 2: THE HAT, by ELISABETH STEVENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the moving trucks had gone
Last Line: Way over the fence into the empty field
Subject(s): Hats; Moving And Movers


MY HAT, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother said if I wore this hat
Last Line: So in this early morning land I always wear my hat %go home,you see, well I wouldn't run a risk like
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Hats


MY INFUNDIBULIFORM HAT, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scenes of my childhood, how oft I recall
Last Line: And she smashed my infundibuliform hat
Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob
Subject(s): Hats


NEWSPAPER HATS, by JIM HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are no substitutes for gas masks
Last Line: I had, for myself . And I try them on, hoping to see %how we wear the things that happen in the worl
Subject(s): Hats


ON ACCIDENTAL EXCHANGE OF OPERA HATS WITH JOHN MASEFIELD, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O friendly hat - hat of my friend
Last Line: Be crushed once more against his heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Hats; Masefield, John (1878-1967)


PAST MINDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tender-hearted maiden, in the latest fashion dressed
Last Line: "she doesn't mind such little things, for she is on your hat!"
Subject(s): Birds; Hats


PERICLES, by CRATINUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's pericles, our own squill-headed zeus
Last Line: Late storms of censure hardly left a tile.
Subject(s): Hats; Pericles (490-429 B.c.)


PHILIP WHALEN'S HAT, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke up about 2:30 this morning and thought about philip's hat
Last Line: You can just play with the beads
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Hats; Loss


ROSA'S CURIOSITY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My frand, you like for buy a hat?
Last Line: I have da cheap wan he can gat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Hats


SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will wear purple bonnets
Last Line: Tell me any foolish thing!
Subject(s): Hats; Life; Old Age; Youth


STICK AND HAT, by LE THANH-TONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're insignificant when not in use
Last Line: The hand wields power, as the head directs and leads
Subject(s): Hats; Sticks


TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition
Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads


TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition
Last Line: Pearls and little ways. A large hat is tall and me and all custard whole
Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads


THE BOYS PROBLEM, by JOHN J. EBERHARDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do'no where my things all go
Last Line: On the floor?
Subject(s): Hats


THE EMBARRASSING QUESTION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you like my new hat?' says your wife
Last Line: "at any rate, dear, I like you""?"
Subject(s): Hats; Likes And Dislikes


THE HAT GIVEN TO THE POET BY LI-CHIEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago a white-haired gentleman
Last Line: And the trees on your tomb are swayed by the autumn wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hats; Winter


THE HAT LADY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a childhood of hats
Subject(s): Hats


THE HATS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hats are hungry
Last Line: Has it been fed?
Subject(s): Hats; Jokes


THE LIST OF FAMOUS HATS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat
Subject(s): Hats; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


THE PASTOR CABALLERO, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The importance of its hat to a form becomes
Subject(s): Hats


THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the top of the crumpetty tree
Last Line: With the quangle wangle quee.
Subject(s): Friendship; Hats; Nonsense


THE RED HAT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady had come right through the front door
Last Line: Smiling behind the screen with her clothes off
Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Hats; Memory


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DEE-SIDE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To come under my hat at dee-side!
Subject(s): Hats; Old Age


TO A LADY'S BONNET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Invidious shade! Why thus presume
Last Line: Farewell the proud boast -- I am free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Beauty; Hats


TO LADY CHARLOTTYE GORDON; DRESSED IN A TARTAN SCOTCH BONNET, by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, lady, wilt thou bind thy lovely brow
Last Line: Smiles, graces, gentleness, her only arms.
Subject(s): Hats


WHAT PLEASURE: A NEW STRAW HAT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With a green brim to look through!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Hats; Nature